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American filmmaker

Spike Lee
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Lee at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Born

Shelton Jackson Lee


(1957-03-20) March twenty, 1957 (age 64)

Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Pedagogy Morehouse College (BA)
New York University (MFA)
Occupation
  • Moving-picture show director
  • producer
  • writer
  • player
Years active 1977–present

Works

 Filmography
Board member of 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Spouse(s)

Tonya Lewis

​

(1000. 1993)​
Children 2
Parent(s) Bill Lee
Relatives
  • Joie Lee (sister)
  • Cinqué Lee (brother)
  • David Lee (brother)
  • Malcolm D. Lee (cousin)
Awards Total list

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American picture director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and professor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with She's Gotta Take Information technology (1986). He has since written and directed such films as Exercise the Correct Thing (1989), Mo' Meliorate Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), 25th Hour (2002), Within Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods (2020). Lee also acted in ten of his films.

Lee's piece of work has continually explored race relations, colorism in the black community, the part of media in gimmicky life, urban criminal offense and poverty, and other political issues. He has won numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Honor for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Educatee Academy Award, a BAFTA Honour for Best Adapted Screenplay, two Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and the Cannes Grand Prix. He has besides received an University Honorary Honour, an Honorary BAFTA Award, an Honorary César, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.[ane] [2] Lee'south films Do the Correct Thing, Malcolm X, 4 Fiddling Girls and She's Gotta Accept It were each selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Moving picture Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[iii] [four] [5]

Early life

Shelton Jackson Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll (née Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee Iii, a jazz musician and composer.[six] [7] Lee has three younger siblings, Joie, David, and Cinqué, each of whom has worked in many different positions in Lee's films. Manager Malcolm D. Lee is his cousin. When he was a child, the family unit moved from Atlanta to Brooklyn, New York. His mother nicknamed him "Spike" during his babyhood. He attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyn's Gravesend neighborhood.

Lee enrolled in Morehouse Higher, a historically black higher in Atlanta, where he fabricated his first student pic, Last Hustle in Brooklyn. He took moving picture courses at Clark Atlanta Academy and graduated with a B.A. in mass communication from Morehouse. He did graduate work at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in flick and television.[8]

Career

1980s

In 1983, Lee premiered his first independent short film titled, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cutting Heads. Lee submitted the film as his master's degree thesis at the Tisch School of the Arts.[9] Lee'due south classmates Ang Lee and Ernest R. Dickerson worked on the film every bit assistant manager and cinematographer, respectively. The flick was the get-go student flick to exist showcased in Lincoln Heart'south New Directors New Films Festival. Lee's male parent, Bill Lee, composed the score. The film won a Student Academy Award.

In 1985, Lee began work on his outset feature moving-picture show, She's Gotta Take Information technology. The pic filmed in black-and-white, concerns a young woman (Johns) who is seeing three men, and the feelings this arrangement provokes. The film was Lee's get-go feature-length moving-picture show, and launched Lee's career. Lee wrote, directed, produced, starred and edited the film with a upkeep of $175,000, he shot the film in ii weeks. When the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7 million at the U.S. box part.[x] New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote that the film "ushered in (along with Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise) the American independent motion picture movement of the 1980s. It was also a groundbreaking film for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in the representation of blacks in American cinema, depicting men and women of colour not as pimps and whores, simply as intelligent, upscale urbanites."[11]

In 1989, Lee made perhaps his nigh seminal film, Do the Right Matter, which focused on a Brooklyn neighborhood'south simmering racial tension on a hot summer solar day. The motion-picture show'due south bandage included Lee, Danny Aiello, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis, Blood-red Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, John Turturro, Martin Lawrence and Samuel 50. Jackson. The film gained critical acclaim every bit one of the all-time films of the yr from picture show critics including both Factor Siskel and Roger Ebert who ranked the film as the best of 1989, and subsequently in their top ten films of the decade (No. 6 for Siskel and No. 4 for Ebert).[12] Ebert later added the movie to his list of The Corking Movies.[13]

To many people's surprise, the motion-picture show was not nominated for All-time Picture or Best Manager at the University Awards. The film but earned two University Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay, Spike Lee'southward get-go Oscar nomination, and for All-time Supporting Actor for Danny Aiello. At the University ceremony Kim Basinger, who was a presenter that evening, stated that Do the Correct Matter likewise deserved a Best Picture nomination stating, "We've got 5 swell films here, and they are great for one reason, because they tell the truth, but there is one film missing from this list because ironically it might tell the biggest truth of all and that'south Do the Right Matter".[xiv] The motion-picture show that did win All-time Picture was Driving Miss Daisy, a picture that focused on race relations between an elderly Jewish woman (Jessica Tandy) and her driver (Morgan Freeman).[xv] Lee said in an April 7, 2006, interview with New York magazine that the other film'south success, which he thought was based on safe stereotypes, hurt him more than than if his film had not been nominated for an honour.[16]

1990s

Later on the 1990 release of Mo' Better Blues, Lee was defendant of antisemitism past the Anti-Defamation League and several flick critics. They criticized the characters of the club owners Josh and Moe Flatbush, described equally "Shylocks". Lee denied the charge, explaining that he wrote those characters in gild to depict how black artists struggled confronting exploitation. Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg, or Tom Pollock, the Jewish heads of MCA and Universal Studios, were unlikely to allow antisemitic content in a film they produced. He said he could non make an antisemitic pic because Jews run Hollywood, and "that's a fact".[17]

In 1992, Spike released his biographical epic film Malcolm Ten based on the Autobiography of Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington equally the famed ceremonious rights leader. The film dramatizes key events in Malcolm Ten'southward life: his criminal career, his incarceration, his conversion to Islam, his ministry equally a member of the Nation of Islam and his subsequently falling out with the organisation, his wedlock to Betty X, his pilgrimage to Mecca and reevaluation of his views apropos whites, and his assassination on February 21, 1965. Defining babyhood incidents, including his father's decease, his female parent's mental illness, and his experiences with racism are dramatized in flashbacks. The pic received widespread critical acclaim including from critic Roger Ebert ranked the picture No. 1 on his Elevation 10 list for 1992 and described the motion picture as "one of the great screen biographies, celebrating the sweep of an American life that bottomed out in prison before its hero reinvented himself."[eighteen] Ebert and Martin Scorsese, who was sitting in for belatedly At the Movies co-host Gene Siskel, both ranked Malcolm X among the ten all-time films of the 1990s.[xix] Denzel Washington's portrayal of Malcolm Ten in item was widely praised and he was nominated for the University Honour for Best Histrion. Washington lost to Al Pacino (Scent of a Adult female), a determination which Lee criticized, proverb "I'k not the only 1 who thinks Denzel was robbed on that 1."[xx]

His 1997 documentary four Lilliputian Girls, most the girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, was nominated for the Academy Honor for Best Characteristic Documentary.[21] In 2017, the moving-picture show was selected for preservation in the U.s.a. National Flick Registry by the Library of Congress equally being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically meaning".[22]

2000s

In 2002, Lee directed 25th Hour starring Edward Norton, and Philip Seymour Hoffman which opened to positive reviews, with several critics since having named it one of the best films of its decade. Movie critic Roger Ebert added the film to his "Great Movies" listing on December 16, 2009.[23] A. O. Scott,[24] Richard Roeper[25] and Roger Ebert all put it on their "best films of the decade" lists.[26] It was later named the 26th greatest film since 2000 in a BBC poll of 177 critics.[27] The film was also a financial success earning about $24 meg against a $5 million upkeep.[28]

In 2006, Lee directed Inside Man starring Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Plummer. The movie was an unusual film for Lee considering it was a studio heist thriller. The film was a disquisitional and financial success earning $186 million off a $45 million budget. Empire gave the film four stars out of v, concluding, "It's certainly a Spike Lee film, but no Fasten Lee Joint. Still, he's delivered a pacy, vigorous and oft masterful take on a well-worn genre. Thanks to some slick lens work and a bandage on cracking form, Lee proves (maybe above all to himself?) that playing it straight is non always a bad affair."[29]

On May 2, 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honored Fasten Lee with the San Francisco Movie Society's Directing Award. In 2008, he received the Wexner Prize.[30] In 2013, he won The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the American arts worth $300,000.[31]

2010s

In 2015, Lee received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his contributions to film.[32] Friends and frequent collaborators Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, Samuel Fifty. Jackson presented Lee with the award at the private Governors Awards ceremony.[33]

Lee directed, wrote, and produced the MyCareer story mode in the video game NBA 2K16.[34] Later that same year, after a perceived long dip in quality, Lee rebounded with a musical drama moving picture, Chi-Raq. The moving picture is a modern-day adaptation of the ancient Greek play "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes set in modern-twenty-four hour period Chicago'southward Southside and explores the challenges of race, sex, and violence in America. Teyonah Parris, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Cannon, Dave Chappelle, Wesley Snipes, John Cusack, and Samuel L. Jackson starred in the film. The film was released by Amazon Studios in select cities in November. Chi-Raq received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the motion picture has rating of 82% with the site's disquisitional consensus stating, "Chi-Raq is as urgently topical and satisfyingly ambitious as it is wildly uneven – and it contains some of Spike Lee's smartest, sharpest, and all-around entertaining late-catamenia work."[35]

Lee's 2018 film BlacKkKlansman, a true law-breaking drama set in the 1970s centered effectually the true story of a black police officer, Ron Stallworth infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Picture show Festival, where it won the Grand Prix and opened the following August.[36] The motion-picture show received near universal praise when it opened in North America receiving a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes with the critics consensus reading, "BlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events – and brings out some of Fasten Lee's hardest-hitting work in decades along the manner."[37] In 2019, during the awards season leading up to the Academy Awards, Lee was invited to bring together a Directors Roundtable chat run by The Hollywood Reporter. The roundtable included Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Marielle Heller (Tin You lot Always Forgive Me?), and Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born).[38] Information technology was nominated for the Academy Honour for All-time Picture and Best Director (Lee's offset ever nomination in this category). Lee won his first competitive Academy Award in the category Best Adapted Screenplay.[39] [40] When asked by journalists from the BBC if the Best Motion picture winner Green Book offended him, Lee replied, "Permit me give you a British answer, information technology's not my cup of tea".[41] Many journalists in the manufacture noted how the 2019 Oscars with BlacKkKlansman competing against eventual winner Green Book mirrored the 1989 Oscars with Lee'south pic Do the Correct Thing missing out on a Best Movie nomination over the eventual winner Driving Miss Daisy.[42] [43] [44]

2020s

Lee's Vietnam state of war film Da five Bloods was released on Netflix. The film starred Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser and Chadwick Boseman.[45] The film was released worldwide on June 12, 2020.[46] [47] The film's plot follows a group of aging Vietnam State of war veterans who return to the country in search of the remains of their fallen team leader, also equally the treasure they buried while serving there. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was originally scheduled to premiere out-of-competition at the 2020 Cannes Motion picture Festival, then play in theaters in May or June earlier streaming on Netflix.[48] The motion-picture show received widespread critical acclamation with the website Rotten Tomatoes' approval rating beingness 92% based on 252 reviews, with the disquisitional consensus reading: "Trigger-happy energy and ambition course through Da 5 Bloods, meeting to fuel one of Fasten Lee's most urgent and impactful films."[49] On Metacritic, the motion-picture show has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[fifty] [51]

Lee's next projection volition be a flick musical about the origin story of Viagra, Pfizer'southward erectile dysfunction drug.[52] Most recently, he had signed an overall deal with Netflix to directly and produce newer movies.[53]

Academic career and pedagogy

In 1991, Lee taught a class at Harvard about filmmaking. In 1993, he began to teach at New York University'southward Tisch School of the Arts in the Graduate Moving picture Program. It was there that he received his main of fine arts. In 2002 he was appointed as creative director of the school.[54] He is now a tenured professor at NYU.[55]

Commercials

In mid-1990, Levi's hired Lee to direct a series of Idiot box commercials for their 501 push-wing jeans.[56]

Marketing executives from Nike[57] offered Lee a chore directing commercials for the company. They wanted to pair Lee's character, Mars Blackmon, who greatly admired athlete Michael Jordan, and Jordan in a marketing entrada for the Air Jordan line. Later, Lee was asked to comment on the miracle of violence related to inner-metropolis youths trying to steal Air Jordans from other kids.[58] He said that, rather than blaming manufacturers of apparel that gained popularity, "deal with the conditions that brand a kid put then much importance on a pair of sneakers, a jacket and gold".[58]

Through the marketing wing of forty Acres and a Mule, Lee has directed commercials for Antipodal,[59] Jaguar,[60] Taco Bell,[61] and Ben & Jerry'southward.[62]

Creative mode and themes

Lee'south films are typically referred to every bit "Spike Lee Joints". The closing credits always end with the phrases "By Whatsoever Means Necessary", "Ya Dig", and "Sho Nuff".[63] His 2013 film, Oldboy, used the traditional "A Spike Lee Picture show" credit after producers had it re-edited.[64]

Themes

Lee'south films have examined race relations,[65] colorism in the black community, the part of media in contemporary life,[66] urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. His films are likewise noted for their unique stylistic elements, including the employ of dolly shots to portray the characters "floating" through their surroundings, which he has had his cinematographers repeatedly utilise in his work.[67]

Influences

In 2018, during an interview with GQ, Lee cited some of his favorite films as Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and A Face up in the Crowd (1957), as well as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). Lee says that he befriended Scorsese after attending a screening of Afterwards Hours at NYU.[68]

Filmography

Directed features
Year Title Distributor
1986 She's Gotta Have It Island Pictures
1988 Schoolhouse Daze Columbia Pictures
1989 Do the Right Matter Universal Pictures
1990 Mo' Amend Blues
1991 Jungle Fever
1992 Malcolm Ten Warner Bros.
1994 Crooklyn Universal Pictures
1995 Clockers
1996 Girl 6 20th Century Play a trick on
Get on the Bus Columbia Pictures
1998 He Got Game Touchstone Pictures
1999 Summer of Sam
2000 Bamboozled New Line Picture palace
2002 25th Hour Touchstone Pictures
2004 She Detest Me Sony Pictures Classics
2006 Inside Man Universal Pictures
2008 Miracle at St. Anna Touchstone Pictures
2012 Cherry-red Hook Summertime Variance Films
2013 Oldboy FilmDistrict
2014 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Gravitas Ventures
2015 Chi-Raq Roadside Attractions
2018 Pass Over Amazon Studios
BlacKkKlansman Focus Features
2020 Da 5 Bloods Netflix

Awards and honors

In 1983, Lee won the Student University Laurels for his film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads.[69] He won awards at the Black Reel Awards for Dear and Basketball,[70] the Blackness Movie Awards for Inside Man, and the Berlin International Moving picture Festival for Become on the Motorbus.[71] He won BAFTA Award for Best Adjusted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman.[72]

Lee was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing [73] [74] and Best Documentary for 4 Little Girls, but did not win either award. In November 2015, he was given the Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to filmmaking.[75] In 2019, he received his first Best Movie and Best Director nominations.[76]

In 2015, at the age of 58, Lee became the youngest person always to receive an Honorary Academy Award.[77] Lee received the award as "a champion of independent moving-picture show and an inspiration to young filmmakers". Frequent collaborators Denzel Washington, Samuel 50. Jackson, and Wesley Snipes presented Lee with the award at a private ceremony at the Governors Awards.[78] [79]

In 2019, Lee'south film BlacKkKlansman went on to receive 6 Academy Award nominations. Lee himself was nominated for 3 Oscars for Lee for All-time Pic, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. He went on to win the Best Adapted Screenplay, his first Academy Award.[lxxx]

Two of his films have competed for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Motion-picture show Festival, and of the ii, BlacKkKlansman won the Grand Prix in 2018.[81]

Lee'southward films Practise the Right Thing,[3] Malcolm Ten,[four] 4 Fiddling Girls, and She'southward Gotta Have It were each selected past the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5]

On May 18, 2016, Lee delivered the Commencement address for The Johns Hopkins Academy Form of 2016.[82]

Personal life

Lee met his wife, attorney Tonya Lewis Lee, in 1992, and they were married a twelvemonth after in New York.[83] They accept 1 daughter, Satchel, born in 1994, and a son, Jackson, born in 1997.[84] [85]

Fasten Lee is a fan of the American baseball game team the New York Yankees, basketball team the New York Knicks, the ice hockey team the New York Rangers and the English football team Arsenal.[86] [87] 1 of the documentaries in ESPN's 30 for 30 series, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, focuses partly on Lee's interaction with Miller at Knicks games in Madison Foursquare Garden.

In June 2003, Lee sought an injunction confronting Fasten Tv to prevent them from using his nickname.[88] Lee claimed that because of his fame, viewers would recollect he was associated with the new channel.[89] [90]

When asked by the BBC if he believed in God, Lee said: "Yes. I have religion that there is a higher being. All this cannot exist an blow."[91]

While Lee continues to maintain an role in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, he and his wife live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.[92]

In May 2020, he published a 3-infinitesimal short pic titled NEW YORK NEW YORK on Instagram[93] that was later featured on the city'south official website.[94]

Lee historic Joe Biden'south victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential election with champagne amidst a oversupply on the streets of Brooklyn.[95] Photos and videos went viral on Twitter.[96] [97]

Controversies

In May 1999, the New York Mail reported that Lee fabricated an inflammatory comment virtually Charlton Heston, president of the National Rifle Association, while speaking to reporters at the Cannes Film Festival. Lee was quoted equally saying the National Rifle Association should be disbanded and, of Heston, someone should "Shoot him with a .44 Bull Dog."[98] [99] Lee said he intended information technology as a joke. He was responding to coverage nearly whether Hollywood was responsible for school shootings. "The problem is guns", he said.[100] Republican Firm Majority Leader Dick Armey condemned Lee as having "nothing to offer the fence on school violence except more violence and more detest".[100]

In October 2005, Lee responded to a CNN anchor's question every bit to whether the government intentionally ignored the plight of black Americans during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina ending by proverb, "It's not too far-fetched. I don't put anything past the United states government. I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."[101] In later comments, Lee cited the government's by including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.[102] [103]

At the 2008 Cannes Motion-picture show Festival, Lee, who was then making Phenomenon at St. Anna, about an all-black U.South. sectionalization fighting in Italy during World War II, criticized director Clint Eastwood for not depicting black Marines in his own Globe War Two film, Flags of Our Fathers. Citing historical accuracy, Eastwood responded that his film was specifically about the Marines who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima, pointing out that while black Marines did fight at Iwo Jima, the U.S. military was racially segregated during Earth War Two, and none of the men who raised the flag were blackness. He angrily said that Lee should "close his face up". Lee responded that Eastwood was interim similar an "angry sometime human being", and argued that despite making two Iwo Jima films back to dorsum, Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers, "at that place was not 1 black soldier in both of those films".[104] [105] [106] He added that he and Eastwood were "not on a plantation".[107] Lee later claimed that the effect was exaggerated past the media and that he and Eastwood had reconciled through mutual friend Steven Spielberg, culminating in his sending Eastwood a print of Miracle at St. Anna.[108]

Lee has been criticized for his representation of women. For example, bell hooks said that he wrote black women in the same objectifying manner that white male filmmakers write the characters of white women.[109] Rosie Perez, who was in an acting part for the commencement time equally Tina in Do the Right Matter, said later that she was very uncomfortable with doing the nude scene in the picture:

"My offset experience [with doing nude scenes] was Do the Right Thing. And I had a big problem with it, mainly because I was afraid of what my family would think — that's what was really bothering me. It wasn't really nearly taking off my dress. But I too didn't feel good about it because the atmosphere wasn't right. And when Spike Lee puts ice cubes on my nipples, the reason you lot don't run into my head is because I'm crying. I was similar, I don't desire to do this."[110]

In March 2012, afterward the killing of Trayvon Martin, Fasten Lee was one of many people who used Twitter to circulate a message that claimed to give the dwelling address of the shooter George Zimmerman. The address turned out to be incorrect, causing the real occupants, Elaine and David McClain, to go out domicile and stay at a hotel due to numerous death threats.[111] Lee issued an apology and reached an agreement with the McClains, which reportedly included "compensation", with their attorney stating "The McClains' claim is fully resolved".[112] [113] Nevertheless, in November 2013, the McClains filed a negligence lawsuit which defendant Lee of "encouraging a unsafe mob mentality amid his Twitter followers, as well as the public-at-large".[111] [114] The lawsuit, which a court filing reportedly valued at $1.2 1000000, alleged that the couple suffered "injuries and damages" that continued after the initial settlement up through Zimmerman's trial in 2013.[111] A Seminole County judge dismissed the McClains' suit, like-minded with Lee that the issue had already been settled previously.[115]

In March 2020, a video of Lee was released on Twitter showing the director having an atmospherics with the security team near the elevators at Madison Square Garden. Speculation arose as to whether Lee was being removed from the building. The New York Knicks released a argument proverb, "The idea that Spike Lee is a victim considering nosotros have repeatedly asked him to not apply our employee entrance and instead use a dedicated VIP entrance — which is used past every other glory who enters The Garden — is laughable. He is welcome to come to The Garden anytime via the VIP or general entrance; just not through our employee entrance, which is what he and Jim (James Dolan) agreed to [Monday] night when they shook hands." Lee refuted Dolan's story alleging that he had been using the aforementioned entrance for the past 28 years. Lee stated he wouldn't nourish the remainder of the games for the flavour.[116] [117]

In June 2020, Lee dedicated filmmaker Woody Allen despite his sexual abuse allegation during a radio interview stating: "I'd merely like to say Woody Allen is a great, smashing filmmaker and this cancel matter is not just Woody. And I think when we look back on it we are going to see that short of killing somebody, I don't know you that you tin just erase somebody like they never existed. Woody's a friend of mine. I know he'southward going through it right now."[118] [119] Following social media backlash, Lee issued an apology on Twitter.[120] [121] Fasten has as well defended Nate Parker, who was accused and charged with sexual assault.[122]

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External links

  • Spike Lee at IMDb
  • Spike Lee on Twitter
  • Spike Lee on Charlie Rose
  • "Spike Lee collected news and commentary". The New York Times.
  • Spike Lee collected news and commentary at The Guardian Edit this at Wikidata
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Ubben Lecture at DePauw Academy
  • Criterion Collection Essay on Spike Lee's Do the Right Matter
  • Lee's Lens Exposes Inequalities, but he's no Revolutionary past Brendan Kelly, Canwest, Apr eleven, 2009
  • Interview with Politico Mag February 7, 2019

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